bedant23
proximity to you
gives me chills
in my bones
and creeps me out.
is that what they say
intimacy
or fear of it
is this you?
or all of it , is me?
growing up I saw love in camouflage.
it was always hidden behind those harsh words
behind hurt and bruises
like thorn and roses.
nobody was very comfortable
about expression of love.
and I grow up thinking,
that's how it should be.
when you love,
you don't talk about it
love is unspoken words
love is unsaid expressions
love is unmentionable.
love is not an essential element
to be spoken about
it is not important communicate
or comprehend
you don't waste words
in saying it.
but now, that you said those words
and I don't know how to respond to it.
no, I feel it. I do
but I never learned how to say it
for some people this might be like a storm
but for me, it's like
damp patches on the wall inside my apartment
after heavy rains, it always gets wet.
moisture spreads across the wall, slowly
a slow invasion of my unexpressed love
for all the people, I loved.
It haunts me, it is invisible.
but it makes me feel its presence.
and gradually, it fills the entire wall with damp patches.
it weakens the wall eventually.
it feels cold inside.
It gives me chills
It freaks me out!